Woman with violin under bright lighting.

Emma Smoler

Photo by Naomi Culp

Violinist Emma Smoler was born and raised in a musical family, performing piano, violin, and vocals from the time she was big enough to step up to a microphone. Emma was the winner of the Midland Symphony Orchestra Fellowship, a prestigious full scholarship to study violin performance at Central Michigan University while also performing in a professional regional symphony orchestra. Emma was concertmaster of the Central Michigan University Symphony and while there studied under Seunghee Lee and Wei-Tsun Chang.

Emma has performed and toured worldwide and has played with world-class performers such as Edgar Meyer, Anne Akiko Meyers, and the Camerata Antonio Lucio of Amsterdam. Emma has performed with numerous symphonies and chamber groups in Chicago, as well as improvisational and bluegrass work with local Chicago bands. But nothing gives her quite the thrill as being an SEO Violin Angel!